In 2006, Hawkman was renamed Hawkgirl starting with issue #50 as part of the "One Year Later" jump forward, with Kendra replacing Hawkman as the lead character. Kendra Saunders was a woman who committed suicide. When Kendra's soul left her body, that of her grandfather's first cousin Shiera Hall, the Golden Age Hawkgirl entered it. Her grandfather, former OSS agent and globe-trotting adventurer Speed Saunders, recognized this, and encouraged his granddaughter to embrace her destiny as the "new" Hawkgirl.